This summer, give yourself a break and journey to the lakes region of Central Maine to celebrate the re-emergence of live theater in Maine. Join Theater at Monmouth for its (R)evolutionary Redux Season. With more vaccine distribution centers opening and testing becoming more and more efficient, the ability for venues to safely open is on the horizon, and that means TAM s intermission will soon come to an end.
The 2021 Summer Repertory Season includes Shakespeare s Measure for Measure directed by James Noel Hoban; Mat Smart s The Agitators directed by Debra Ann Byrd; the World Premier of Callie Kimball s Sofonisba directed by Dawn McAndrews; Age of Bees by Tira Palmquist directed by Eddie DeHais. Lynn Nottage s Crumbs from the Table of Joy directed by Chris Anthony, and the musical Daddy Long Legs, Music and Lyrics by Paul Gordon, Book by John Caird, based on the novel by Jean Webster and directed by Adam P. Blais. The Family Show is Aesop s Guide to Friendship by Dawn McAndrews and
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Current conditions make it seem impossible to produce a play, but Grinnell students have done it again.
The Grinnell College theatre and dance department’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice will be broadcasted Friday, Saturday and Sunday as a recorded show for everyone who is registered to watch.
The play is a 2006 adaption to the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Assistant Professor of Theatre, Irma Mayorga, is directing and said that she chose this play because the focus on grief and loss reminds her of the moment that we are all living through.
The play follows Eurydice, newly married to Orpheus, as her grief over her dead father brings her to the underworld. Within the play, Eurydice spends time with her father in the underworld, trying to understand her own painful memories and her father’s mortality.